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"Sprinter" Quotes from Famous Books

... with the train. My plan is to run forward and get on the first blind. It is nip and tuck, for the train is gathering speed. Also, the shack is behind me and running after me. I guess I am the better sprinter, for I make the first blind. I stand on the steps and watch my pursuer. He is only about ten feet back and running hard; but now the train has approximated his own speed, and, relative to me, he is standing still. I encourage him, hold out my hand to him; but he explodes in a mighty ...

— The Road • Jack London

... meager relief. He felt vaguely that death must make a first choice of the men who were nearest; the initial morsels for the dragons would be then those who were following him. So he displayed the zeal of an insane sprinter in his purpose to keep them in the rear. There ...

— The Red Badge of Courage - An Episode of the American Civil War • Stephen Crane

... Harold was a swift sprinter, and was called "Harefoot" by those who were intimate enough to exchange calls and coarse ...

— Comic History of England • Bill Nye

... the camp, flaunting the red parasol, Dick was followed closely by the bellowing bull. For a short distance, anyway, the sprinter could run as ...

— The High School Boys in Summer Camp • H. Irving Hancock

... girls do," Fresno smiled, sourly. "My taste runs more to music." After a moment's meditation, he observed: "Speed doesn't look like a sprinter to me. I—I'll wager he can't do a hundred ...

— Going Some • Rex Beach

... horse travelling in such splendid loneliness asked, "Runnin' horse?" and I (to cover my folly) replied evasively, "He can run a little for good money." This satisfied every one that he was a sprinter and quite explained his ...

— The Trail of the Goldseekers - A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse • Hamlin Garland

... the barge yawed, the reefs kept sliding by. The passenger stole a look at the pump-man, and ventured: "Kieran, there used to be, a few years ago, a sprinter, pole-vaulter, and jumper, competing under the name of Campbell in the Hibernian and Caledonian games up north, and you're a ...

— Wide Courses • James Brendan Connolly